The Nobel Prize winner has teamed up with Apple to help young women in Lebanon, Afghanistan, Turkey and beyond.

She’s not long finished her first term at the prestigious Oxford University, but Malala Yousafzai is busier than most students with her extra-curricular activities.

In fact, the 20-year-old Pakistani activist, who is the world’s youngest Nobel laureate, has just visited Lebanon to announce her latest initiative—and it’s a big one.

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Yousafzai has joined forces with Apple’s chief executive officer, Tim Cook, to help make quality education available for young women around the world.

The philanthropic pair will work together to help achieve Yousafzai’s goal of reaching the 130 million girls in the world who have no or limited access to education.

Specifically, Apple and Malala Fund’s joint initiative will initially target 100,000 young women in need of secondary school education in countries including Lebanon, Afghanistan, Turkey and Pakistan.

Malala Yousafzai

In the groundbreaking collaboration, Apple aims to double the number of educations grants awarded to girls through Yousafzai’s eponymous Malala Fund.

“We are committing resources, and we are committing money and technology,” Cook told ABC News.

“130 million girls is a lot of folks around the world and so this is a bold ambition. This is exactly what Apple loves to work on and is something that everybody is saying is impossible.”

The CEO added in a tweet: “Apple is proud to support the courageous, visionary Malala in advancing every girl’s right to 12 years of free, safe, quality education.

“Together we’re committing to expand the reach of and provide secondary school opportunities to girls around the world.”

The joint initiative was devised after Cook and Yousafzai met in Oxford in October, after the tech boss reached out to the women’s rights campaigner.

“We began to talk and it became so clear that she had such a bold vision. It really lined up with the boldness of Apple and that the core of it is an overriding belief in equality and that education is the great equaliser,” Cook told The Independent from Beirut.

“And that has always been at the root of our company and my personal beliefs. And so it started, the fire was lit there. I instantly wanted to throw in on the vision that Malala had.”

The pair added that this was just the start of their partnership, with the aim to educate far more than the 100,000 girls first touted.

Investment aside, Yousafzai revealed she also hopes Apple’s expertise in tech can be used to further empower young women and develop their skills.

It’s just the latest initiative from the young student, who in 2012 was shot in the head and neck in an assassination attempt by Taliban gunmen, after speaking out about girls’ rights to attend school.

Her story led to an international outpouring of support, and she was transferred to Birmingham, England for lifesaving treatment.

The then-teen went on to make a full recovery, and has continued to campaign for young women’s access to education ever since.

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Last year Yousafzai was named the youngest ever United Nations Messenger of Peace – the highest honour that can be bestowed by the UN secretary-general.

“I promise to ​keep fighting​ until the day that every girl can put on her uniform, pack up her books and walk to school without fear,” she wrote in a blog post earlier this year.

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